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Islamic State gives out $10,000 prizes in Qur’an contest

The Islamic State, which everyone in authority in the Western world knows has nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, just gave out three $10,000 prizes to the winners of a Qur’an contest. One wonders if John Kerry will care to explain just how this entity that gives cash awards to those who memorize the Qur’an actually has nothing to do with its teachings.

“VIDEO: Islamic State Gives $10K to Winner of Caliphate’s First Quran Contest,” by Ali Waked, Breitbart, February 20, 2016:

The Islamic State’s outreach commission organized a Quran contest this week, encompassing the territory under the group’s control in Iraq, the IS-affiliated Amaq news agency reported.

The “first Dar al-Islam” contest was divided into levels, and started with regional qualifiers participated in by hundreds of people each. The three top performers in each qualifier reached the national finals, which were held in the IS stronghold of Mosul.

The winner of each level won a prize of $10,000, while the others received consolation prizes of $1,000 each.

The organizers of the contest said that it was held under the patronage of the “Emir of the Faithful, the Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.”

The big winner was a blind man from the Nineveh region, who knew the entire Quran by heart “without a single mistake.”

A video was later posted by IS showing the contestants in a conference room of one of the city’s hotels….

Ha! The ‘original Arabic’ is baffling to the Islamic scholars even though the Koran claims to be ‘mubeen’ (clear).

Note: if the Koran was not a troop motivator that advocated hatred and violence against disbelievers, then why would ISIS encourage the learning of a text that did not support ISIS, but rather called for tolerance?

Caliph al-Baghdadi is said by his BA, MA and PhD teachers to know Islam BETTER than most university teachers of Islamic studies.

I saw a Robert Spencer interview of Ibn Warraq regarding his book ‘Christmas in the Koran’, which discusses these Koranic non sequiturs. It sounds fascinating, and I hope to get to it some time soon. (So many books to read, so little time!!)

now IS has the real leader to guide them in case something happens to Abu Bakar as well as a scholar to conduct complicated medical surgeries aLLAH SHE is truly all knowing all wise may muhamMad be pleased as Ishtar is…I meant aLLAH sorry typo error

This is tawid – I think. There was an excellent documentary about this and how people (many children) memorize the Koran from all over the Islamic world, then converge in Saudi Arabia for an annual contest.

‘One wonders if John Kerry will care to explain just how this entity that gives cash awards to those who memorize the Qur’an actually has nothing to do with its teachings.’
Easy. JK will tell us the Qur’an has nothing to do with Islam.

shoehorn, that’s a good one,
sadly the people that believe the previous lie will swallow the next one too,
if one did try to say “the quran has nothing to do with islam” it wouldn’t be any more
incorrect than saying “isis isn’t islamic”,
and i’m sure you know it’s really just the same lie repackaged,
but if Kerry does say that, i bet a lot of idiots will be repeating it like it’s been scientifically proven….

How long does it take a hafiz to recite the Quran from memory? Each regional qualifier (12 of them, let’s say) included “hundreds” of contestants, so there must have been at least 2,400 contestants. Going to the original report by clicking on the red-highlighted “winner” above and hitting “Translate”, you get English that is mostly incoherent, but that is artistically right-justified, Arabic-style. Think of the man-hours (and woman-hours) that were devoted to this effort. The ummah would be better served if all this manpower (and womanpower) were devoted to something more scientific, like the numerology of the number of stars inhttps://plnami.blob.core.windows.net/media/2015/04/cf-logo-big-800×500.png

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